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Portrait painters --- Painting, French --- Portraitistes --- Peinture française --- Biography. --- Biographie --- Painters --- Biography --- Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth, --- Lebrun, Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée, --- Vigée-Lebrun, Marie Louise Elisabeth, --- Lebrun, Louise Elisabeth Vigée-, --- Vigée-Lebrun, Elisabeth-Louise, --- Vigée Le Brun, Elisabeth Louise, --- Vigée, Louise Elisabeth, --- Vigée-Lebrun, --- Vigée-Le Brun, Marie Louise Elisabeth, --- Le Brun, Elisabeth Louise Vigée, --- Brun, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le, --- Le Brun, Louise-Elisabeth Vigée, --- Lebrun, Marie Anne Elisabeth Vigée,

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The most accomplished female painter of her age, Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1755-1842) is best remembered for her many portraits of Queen Marie Antoinette of France. Her two-volume autobiography was published in France in 1835-7, and this English version (of which the translator is unknown) in 1879. It begins with a series of ten letters to a Russian friend, Princess Kourakin, describing her family and early life, her artistic training, and her rise to the position of portraitist to the queen. The letters end with the Revolution and Vigée-Lebrun's flight abroad: the 'souvenirs' which follow describe her years of exile and her eventual return to France. Throughout her life, she supported herself and her family by her painting. Volume 1 ends with her staying in Austria, after a tour of the cities of Italy, during which she studied art as well as participating in the life of high society.

Painters --- Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth, --- Lebrun, Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée, --- Vigée-Lebrun, Marie Louise Elisabeth, --- Lebrun, Louise Elisabeth Vigée-, --- Vigée-Lebrun, Elisabeth-Louise, --- Vigée Le Brun, Elisabeth Louise, --- Vigée, Louise Elisabeth, --- Vigée-Lebrun, --- Vigée-Le Brun, Marie Louise Elisabeth, --- Le Brun, Elisabeth Louise Vigée, --- Brun, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le, --- Le Brun, Louise-Elisabeth Vigée, --- Lebrun, Marie Anne Elisabeth Vigée,

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The foremost woman artist of her age, Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842) exerted her considerable charm to become the friend, and then official portraitist, of Marie Antoinette. Though profitable, this role made her a public and controversial figure, and in 1789 it precipitated her exile. In a Europe torn by strife and revolution, this singularly gifted and high-spirited woman nevertheless managed to thrive as an independent, self-supporting artist, doggedly setting up studios in Rome, Naples, Venice, Milan, Vienna, St. Petersburg, and London. Long overlooked or dismissed, Vigée Le Brun's portraits now hang in the Louvre, in a room of their own, as well as in all leading art museums of the world. Illustrations include sixteen of her portraits presented in full color.--From publisher description.

Portrait painters -- France -- Biography. --- Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth, -- 1755-1842. --- Portrait painters --- Visual Arts --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Painting --- Portraitists --- Painters --- Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth, --- Lebrun, Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée, --- Vigée-Lebrun, Marie Louise Elisabeth, --- Lebrun, Louise Elisabeth Vigée-, --- Vigée-Lebrun, Elisabeth-Louise, --- Vigée Le Brun, Elisabeth Louise, --- Vigée, Louise Elisabeth, --- Vigée-Lebrun, --- Vigée-Le Brun, Marie Louise Elisabeth, --- Le Brun, Elisabeth Louise Vigée, --- Brun, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le, --- Le Brun, Louise-Elisabeth Vigée, --- Lebrun, Marie Anne Elisabeth Vigée, --- Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth --- France --- Biography